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Dear Bibi Netanyahu

By jim_snowden October 21, 2015The Larger World

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Bibi, Here's what you said, according to the Times of Israel: During an address Tuesday to delegates at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Netanyahu posited that the Nazi fuehrer…

Steve Shives’s Five Stupid Things About Holocaust Denial

By jim_snowden May 1, 2015History

I dedicate this post to someone who's recently taken to trip-trapping on my bridge uninvited. Take it away, Mr. Shives: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxxZunGwtM] What he said.

No. Hitler Was Not A Genius

By jim_snowden March 19, 2014History

Over last weekend, I became embroiled in a conversation about Adolf Hitler--an occupational hazard--that included this question, directed at me, "Do you think Hitler was a genius?" No. To revise…

Nazism and Conspiracy Theory

By jim_snowden February 16, 2014History1 Comment

Our lords and masters became our lords and masters through conspiracy...and the odd murder. The only way they can justify that to themselves, since they don't want to think of…

Was There A Nazi Personality?

By jim_snowden October 22, 2013History

One of my Facebook friends posted about a book that led to my thinking about this issue. Here's the exchange: Now I'd like to revise and extend my remarks…

Louis vs. Schmeling I: June 19th, 1936

By jim_snowden October 9, 2013History, Sports

Louis vs. Schmeling was hardly the first time race and racism mattered in boxing (see Jack Johnson, among others), and it wouldn't be the last. But the stakes both in…

The Summer of Long Knives Playlist

By jim_snowden April 20, 2013Music, Writing

I write to music. I've never conducted any sort of survey to see how common that is among fiction writers, but I do it. The rhythm keeps me moving when…

Denialism Chronicles: The Strange Case of Charles Krafft

By jim_snowden March 7, 2013Criticism, The Larger World

Blogging's been light recently because I've been wrapping up applications for fellowships for the now-seriously-it's-ready-but-wait-let-me-change-one-last-thing Denial screenplay. But this story about the apparently well-regarded ceramic artist Charles Krafft in The Stranger drew my…